Born March 29 1955 in Indianola, MS, Clayton has been recording since 1969.
One of the most popular and definitive artists of Modern 'Southern Soul' music
(although he doesn't want to be known as a 'Blues" or "Southern Soul" artist). Amazingly, he has only enjoyed steady but modest commercial success since the late 60s
outside the South. Clayton left Mississippi for Chicago in 1971 but ended up with the legendary Hi Records in Memphis, where he worked with producer Willie Mitchell. Hi issued a series of Clayton singles on its Pawn subsidiary, including "I Must Be Losin' You," "It's Time You Made Up Your Mind," and "Baby You're Ready," but none of them charted.

In 1984 Clayton scored his first
regional hits with "Tell Me" and "What a Way to Put It". Picked up by
Polygram, the song "Tell Me" Cracked the national R & B chart (Billboard R & B
#74). Later in the decade Clayton recorded some strong material for Ichiban Records before signing with Ace. His third for Ace, "Ace In The Hole" included the southern soul smash "Equal Opportunity", a duet with Pat Brown
and one of his standards "Three People Sleeping In My Bed". From there a steady stream of southern soul hits has followed. He started his own label, EndZone in the late 90s
(which also released LPs on Omar Cunningham and Tyrone Davis)
and signed to Malaco in 2005. On his own again in 2009, Clayton reached the
Billboard R & B singles chart again when "We Both Grown", a duet between Clayton
and Dave Hollister, managed a #84 placing

1. Was It Something I Said
2. Love Trap
3. Doing It Rite On Time
4. She's Miss Wonderful
5. I Ain't Gonna Turn You Loose
6. Hard Luck
7. To Get What You Got
8. High Heel Shoes
9. It's Time You Made Up Your Mind
10. I Must Be Losin' You
11. Baby You're Ready
12. Too Much Of Nothin'
13. Gotta Have Money
14. Hello How Have You Been
15. Say Yes To Love
16. Abracadabra
17. When I'm Gone
18. That Wall

"Let's Get Together" (Ace 1993)

1. Three People (Sleeping in My
Bed)
2. Don't Make Me Pay
3. Back Street Love Affair
4. Let's Get Together
5. Does Your Mama Know
6. Walk Away
7. Welcome Home
8. Party Down
9. I Love Stealing It
10. How Do You Love 2
11. Let Me Love You
12. Feels Like Love

"Simply Beautiful" (Ace 1994)

1. Lose What You Got
2. Dancing With My Baby
3. Love Stealing Ain't Worth Stealing
4. Crazy for You
5. Ain't No Way
6. Oops There It Is
7. Tell Me
8. So Glad You're Mine
9. Simply Beautiful
10. Once upon a Time
11. Stay
12. Do to You

1. Open the Door to Your Heart
2. Love Pains
3. What a Way to Put It
4. One Nite Stand
5. So Tied Up
6. Best Years of My Life
7. Leaving Me
8. I've Been Loving You Too Long
9. Shining Star
10. I'll Take Care of You
11. In the Mood
12. Show Me

1. Mine All Mine
2. Heart of the City
3. Let Me Be (Your Spare Time)
4. Love Is Something Beautiful
5. Are You Married?
6. One Last Kiss
7. Hot Stuff
8. Ain't Nothing I Can Do
9. Something to Talk About
10. Help You Pay Him Back
11. God Has a Plan
12. I Love You (But I Can't Feel a Thing)
13. I'm Going to Your Wife
14. Unconditional Love

"Midnight Doctor: Willie Clayton's Greatest Hits" (Blueside 1998)

1. Three People (Sleeping in My
Bed)
2. Walk Away from Love
3. In Need of a Good Woman
4. Dancing With My Baby
5. Equal Opportunity
6. Young Blues Man
7. Meet Me Tonight
8. My Baby's Cheating on Me
9. Let's Get Together
10. Looking for a Good Woman
11. Lose What You Got
12. Love Stealing Ain't Worth Stealing
13. I Love Stealing It
14. Once upon a Time
15. Don't Make Me Pay for His Mistakes
16. Main Squeeze
17. Midnight Doctor

1. Everytime You Go Away
2. Caught Up
3. This Broken Heart
4. I Gotta Good Woman
5. You May Need This Road
6. Stop Running from Love
7. Cheatin' on Me
8. Let's Stay Together
9. Talk to Me
10. I Got Beat Out
11. That Woman Ain't Havin' It
12. You Don't Know It
13. Jesus Will Make a Way

"Best Years Of Our Life" (Vivid 1999)

1. Let Me Love You
2. Woman Needs To Be Loved
3. I'Ve Been Loving You Too Long
4. Show And Tell
5. Running In And Out
6. Happy
7. We'Re Gettin' Careless With Our Love
8. Best Years Of My Life
9. Open The Door
10. How Do You Love Two
11. Show Me
12. In The Mood
13. Leavin' Me
14. I'Ll Take Care Of You

"The Lost Tracks" (Avanti 2000)

1. Three People (Sleeping in My
Bed)
2. Cupcake
3. Take Me to Heaven
4. Feels Like Love
5. Let's Get Together
6. Show Me
7. Close the "P" Store
8. Dear Lover
9. Equal Opportunity
10. Suspended Animation
11. Walk Away from Love
12. Do to You
13. I Miss You Babe
14. Show and Tell

"Call Me Mr. C" (Claytown 2000)

1. Scandalous
2. Party Like We Use to Do
3. Simply Beautiful
4. I Can't Leave Your Love Alone
5. Heart Have a Change of Mind
6. He Don't Love You Like I Do
7. Good Enough to Keep Me
8. Same Thang Make You Laugh
9. Talk to Me
10. Woman Need to Be Loved, A
11. Without You in My Life
12. My Heart Can't Let You Go

"The Little Giant Of Soul" (Claytown 2001)

1. Wiggle
2. Love For Sale
3. I'm Coming Home
4. Shake It
5. Blues, The
6. Stuck on You
7. I'm Ready
8. Is the Love
9. Love Is So Good When You're Stealing It
10. Cheating Game
11. Tongue Bath

"Essential Love Songs" (Bellmark 2002)

1. Love Pains
2. What a Way to Put It
3. So Tied Up
4. Best Years of My Life
5. In the Mood
6. Show Me
7. No Getting Over Me
8. Meet Me Tonite
9. Soap Opera Love Affair
10. That's the Way I Feel About You
11. Missing U
12. Special Lady

"The Last Man Standing" (EndZone 2002)

1. Lookin' to Hook
2. I Found Love (When I Found You)
3. I Wish He Didn't Trust Me So Much
4. Ohh Baby, Baby
5. Old Fashioned Girl
6. Drowning in the Sea of Love
7. How to Treat Your Lady
8. Living With Me
9. Let the Good Times Roll
10. I Love Me Some You
11. Good Woman
12. Jesus Will Make a Way

"Classic Soul Vol. 1" (EndZone Ent. 2003)

1. I Love Stealing It
2. I Love Me Some You - (Remix)
3. Won't You Be My Lollipop
4. Loving Each Other 4 Life
5. Party Like We Use to Do
6. Wiggle
7. Simply Beautiful
8. Tell Me
9. Three People
10. Let's Get Together
11. Good Enough to Keep Me
12. Blues, The
13. Love Is Something Beautiful
14. Sparetime
15. No Getting Over Me

"Changing Tha Game" (EndZone 2004)

1. Fact, No Rumor
2. Love Mechanic
3. Whipped
4. Come on Over
5. I Want You
6. I Wanna Get It On
7. Take 'Um Off
8. Love Zone
9. So in Love
10. Keep Steppin'
11. Woman's World
12. What Cha' Do to Me
13. Monkey See, Monkey Do
14. Unconditionally
15. Thang 4 You, A
16. My Mama Song
17. Monkey See Monkey Do

"Full Circle" (End Zone Ent./Malaco 2005)

1. Going Crazy (Malaco version)
2. If You Ever Get Lonely (Call Me)
3. Stay Together
4. All My Love
5. Playing Your Game Baby
6. Can We Talk
7. I'll Make It Good to You
8. Take It 2 da Club
9. It's a Good Feeling
10. Meet Me Tonight
11. Georgia on My Mind
12. Hold Me

1. Dance The Nite Away
2. I Need To Know
3. We Both Grown Feat. Dave Hollister
4. Good Woman, Good Man
5. Love To You
6. My Everything
7. Put It On Me
8. Special To Me
9. Some Kind Of Wonderful
10. Where Were You
11. We Both Grown Feat. Dave Hollister (Remix)
12. The Best Years Of My Life
13. Dance The Nite Away (Remix)
14. Shake Your Money Maker (Bonus Track)

"If Your Loving Wasn't Good Enough To Keep Me...How In The World Do
You Think It Can Bring Me Back" (S.D.E.G 2011)
LISTEN

1. If Your Loving
Wasn't Good Enough To Keep Me? How In The World Do You Think It Can
Bring Me Back
2. Cheating In The Day Light (Duet W/ Swamp Dogg)
3. One Night Stand
4. Open Up The Door To Your Heart
5. How Do You Love Two
6. A Woman Needs To Be Loved
7. Show Me
8. Feels Like Love To Me
9. Shining Star
10. Does Your Mama Know
11. Stay
12. Where Has Love Gone

"Sings The Number Ones" (Music Access 2011)

1. Walk Away From Love
2. That's The Way I Feel
3. So Glad You're Mine
4. Turn Off The Lights
5. Everywhere Time You Go Away
6. In The Mood
7. So Very Hard To Go
8. Tell Me
9. Leaving Me
10. Rockin' Chair

"The Tribute: One Man, One Voice" (EMG 2011)

1. Still Called The Blues
2. Ain't No Party
3. Turn Back The Hands Of Time
4. I Believe In You
5. Mine All Mine Feat. Tyrone Davis
6. Be With Me
7. Equal Oppurtunity
8. Turning Point
9. Move To Soon
10. A Woman Was Made To Be Loved
11. Without You In My Life
12. Careless
13. Candy Licker

1. Ain't No Love
2. Back Side of 50
3. I'll Take Care of You
4. The Choking Kind
5. Drowning in the Sea of Love
6. Woman, Lover, Friend
7. Playing Your Game
8. Simply Beautiful
9. Let the Good Times Roll
10. Wish He Didn't Trust Me so Much
11. Georgia on My Mind
12. Don't Make Me Pay
13. Ain't No Way
14. Stop by (feat. Tyrone Davis)